I have been out in my gardens most of the week so have done very little sewing. But in the evenings before bed I've been crocheting a few dish cloths and embroidering on a few dish towels.
One of these days I will make some hot pads/potholders to go with the sets. I have a few scraps of chicken themed fabrics. I used to make sets for stocking stuffers, christmas gifts and housewarming gifts but haven't made any sets for the last five years or so. I have a lot of different dish towels for embroidery I have accumulated over the years with coupons or on clearance and I have a lot of embroidery thread, a lot of it from thrift stores, and I have a lot of embroidery transfers, vintage and new, and I have a lot of cotton yarn for crocheting the dish cloths so my only investment will be my time.
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REMEMBER, TREASURE, GROW, READ (my words of the year)
I've finished two books. I had been reading a lot of WWII historical fiction but had to take a break from that with something a little lighter.
1. Unwritten by Charles Martin. If it was a movie it would be rated as a "chick flick". I've read quite a few of Charles Martin's books (my favs are When Crickets Cry and Chasing Fireflies) and most bring a few tears to my eyes. There's usually a lot of down-and-out characters in his books who find the way out.
2. The Stars and Their Light by Olivia Hawker. It was historical fiction based on the 1947 Roswell incident. Lives were changed in different ways. It was a slow moving book but interesting. I've read several of Olivia Hawker's books and this was not one of my favs.
And now I'm back to reading WWII historical fiction.
7 comments:
I read so many WWII novels too that I need to take a break to read something different for a little bit and then I go back to them again
CUTE!!!!!! towels :-)
Happy stitching Cathy.
Fun chickens on your tea towels! Gail at the cozy quilter.
I just got a flashback to my mother's kitchen. Those towels, oh yes! I saw this towel cotton, just like yours, with the colours on the side and the price was WAY too high for my wallet. I sometimes find good linen tablecloth at thrift store and I turn it into towels. Love the roosters. Enjoy the garden! ;^)
Love your towels! My mother loved chickens and roosters and would have loved these also.
Very pretty, I love embroidered tea towels, as we call them here. They are almost too nice to use to dry dishes, arent they. But they make very special gifts.
Love your dish cloths and dish towels but no flowers? I guess they are still trying to bud out there! I surely admire you for all the things you do.
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